To get started with WebSphere Application Server, understand the individual products in the product family to determine which product best suits your needs. Then order that product, prepare your operating system for the installation and install the product, create profiles that contains application servers, and deploy applications on your servers for your customers to access. Deploying applications is covered in detail in another part of the information center. The Getting started section of the installation center focuses on product descriptions, package descriptions, installation procedures, and migration.
IBM WebSphere Application Server products provide a next-generation application server on an industry-standard foundation. Each product addresses a distinct set of scenarios and needs.
Planning
See Planning the installation for a description of typical scenarios for each WebSphere
Application Server product.
Installing
See Task overview: Installing for a description of installing the WebSphere Application
Server product and other installable components on the product disc.
See Task overview: Installing for a description of installing the WebSphere Application
Server product and other installable components.
Configuring
See Creating profiles using the graphical user interface for a description of installing profiles
that define a deployment manager, a custom managed node, or a standalone application
server.
See Configuring the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS product after installation for a description of what to do after installing the product.
Migrating
See Overview of migration and coexistence and Migrating and coexisting for a description of how to migrate
applications and configuration data from a previous version of WebSphere Application
Server.
See Migrating and coexisting for a description
of how to migrate applications and configuration data from a previous version
of WebSphere Application Server.
Using the Samples Gallery
See Accessing Samples for a description of the set of Samples that ship with each product. The Samples demonstrate common Web application tasks.
Deploying applications
The information center describes a way to sample WebSphere
Application Server functionality by quickly deploying Web components, such
as servlets and JSP files. The method is not recommended as an official development
method. See Fast paths for WebSphere Application Server to
get started.
The information center describes how to deploy Web components,
such as servlets and JSP files.